The Rise and Decline of the Scholastic Quaestio Disputata : : With Special Emphasis on its Use in the Teaching of Medicine and Science /

The Rise and Decline of the Scholastic Quaestio Disputata : : With Special Emphasis on its Use in the Teaching of Medicine and Science / / Brian Lawn.

This book represents a major contribution to the study of scholastic disputation or quaestio disputata . Based on an ever increasing use of logic in law, theology, the arts and medicine, this method rapidly became one of the chief tools of instruction in all these disciplines. Its history is traced...

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Superior document:Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; 2
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Lawn, Brian,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1993.
Year of Publication:1993
Language:English
Series:Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Perface
  • Introduction
  • I. The use of the quaestio disputata in legal circles
  • II. The development of the quaestio disputata in the teaching of theology
  • III. The use of the quaestio disputata in the teaching of physica
  • IV. The quaestio disputata
  • V. The Merton tradition
  • VI. The diffusion of Mertonian ideas 1300-1450
  • VII. Medical quaestio disputata c.1250-1450
  • VIII. Quaestio disputata in physica during the late 15th and 16th centuries
  • IX. The reaction against dialectic
  • X. The decline of the quaestio disputata in teh 17th century
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Index nominum.

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